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SLEEP Is Racist Now, Scientists Assure America
Daily Caller ^ | 10/27/15 | Eric Owens

Posted on 10/28/2015 10:59:29 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

Scientists have determined that sleep is the latest thing to be racist.

News of the development comes from National Journal in a lengthy article that debuted late last week.

The article, which manages to reach nearly 6,000 words, cites several studies, including one conducted at the University of California, San Diego. For the five-year study, researchers hooked 164 human subjects up to a polysomnography machine (which features a brain scanner, eye trackers, breathing sensors and much else). They found that black participants and white participants experienced sleep differently. In a nutshell, the white study subjects achieved slow-wave sleep — which is the really good kind — about 20 percent of the time. Black subjects only reached this quality level 15 percent of the time.

A study published in June in an academic journal called SLEEP also concluded that white people, black people, Chinese people and Hispanic people sleep differently.

University of Maryland, Baltimore psychologist Danielle L. Beatty Moody suggested that the sleep problems black people experience at night can be attributed to all the racism they encounter during the day.

“It’s uncomfortable for them to sleep because they are thinking back over mistreatment, thinking back over mal­treat­ment, think­ing back over bias they experienced,” Beatty Moody told National Journal. “In thinking about those experiences, they are getting more aroused, more cognitive arousal, which does the opposite of what you need it to do to go to sleep.”

Stony Brook University preventive medicine professor Lauren Hale suggested that poverty is the main issue. She said black people tend to suffer more sleep-related problems because they tend to live in poor areas.

“I have never seen a study that hasn’t shown a direct association between neighborhood quality and sleep quality,” Hale told National Journal.

“If you know somebody in your neighborhood who has had a break-in, you might feel pretty uncomfortable shut­ting your eyes falling asleep while your two or three children are sleeping in the room next door and no one else is there to pro­tect them,” she added.

University of Chicago epidemiologist Diane Lauderdale noted that rich black people sleep better, but still not as well overall as white people do.

“The race gap is decreased if you take into account some indicator of economics,” Lauderdale told the Washington, D.C.-based digital media company.

It’s a “tragic spiral,” National Journal explains. Less sleep is a symptom of poor health which affects black communities and poor health leads to even more poor health among black people.

Sleep apnea also affects black people at a higher rate. According to one study, 12.8 percent of black participants suffered from sleep apnea compared to 7.4 percent of white people.

“Untreated sleep apnea leads to cardiovascular disease if not death,” “charismatic Haitian-born psychologist” Girardin Jean-Louis told National Journal. “There are many times we go, we give talks in churches, and we hear stories of people who died, and we always say to ourselves, ‘You know, I think that was un­treated sleep apnea.'”

The assertion that sleep is racist comes in an addition to the long and ever-growing list of racist things in every nook and cranny of American life including coconut bras, golf jokes about Barack Obama, hump day, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and, of course, “Thomas and Friends.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cryracism; junkscience
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To: Impala64ssa
“It’s uncomfortable for them to sleep because they are thinking back over mistreatment, thinking back over mal­treat­ment, think­ing back over bias they experienced,

Other ethnicities have sleep disorders too:

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Sleep Disturbances: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).

Racial/ethnic differences in the associations between obesity measures and severity of sleep-disordered breathing: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

21 posted on 10/28/2015 11:26:01 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: CASchack

They didn’t even consider whether there could be genetic differences between the races.


22 posted on 10/28/2015 11:27:28 AM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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To: Impala64ssa

No weed and malt after 9:00 will cure that problem!


23 posted on 10/28/2015 11:30:40 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Impala64ssa

If Black people would stay home at night and get a good night sleep, rather than going out and stealing and robbing people, there wouldn’t be a problem.


24 posted on 10/28/2015 11:32:59 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Well, if absolutely every effing thing is effing racist, then effing cool. I am a muther-effing racist muther-effer, and effing happy about it.

SO EFF OFF.


25 posted on 10/28/2015 11:34:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

That’s exactly what I was thinking!


26 posted on 10/28/2015 11:35:15 AM PDT by punknpuss
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To: conservativejoy

Good ‘ol Ben, aka Sleepy ...


27 posted on 10/28/2015 11:35:39 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Vanders9
University of Maryland, Baltimore psychologist Danielle L. Beatty Moody suggested that the sleep problems black people experience at night can be attributed to all the racism they encounter during the day.

Figgers.

28 posted on 10/28/2015 11:37:14 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Did they control for drugs, alcohol, boredom from not working, self-doubt from affirmative action and not knowing who their daddy is?

I love the comments from other FR’ers:
weed and malt after 9 PM
genetic differences
staying home at night and geting a good night sleep, rather than going out and stealing and robbing people
overweight


29 posted on 10/28/2015 11:40:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Lazamataz

No kidding? Who would have thunk it.


30 posted on 10/28/2015 11:46:47 AM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: CASchack

[[What a load of psychobabble. Sleep apnea also affects overweight people more than those who are not. Did the study cross-screen for overweight subjects in addition to race?]]

Did they also screen for prior or current drug use/abuse- or financial status (the poor tend not to sleep as well)- or lifestyle activities (those who excersize m ore tend to sleep better) Etc Etc Etc-

The damnable thing about ‘studies’ is that you can control them to say whatever you want by hiding certain facts about the studies-


31 posted on 10/28/2015 11:47:02 AM PDT by Bob434
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They didn’t even consider whether there could be genetic differences between the races. That's where I thought the study was going when I first read the headline. It could be that it was an advantage in the northern hemisphere for people who were able to sleep through those long, cold winter nights where winter food was scarce - the more they slept, the fewer calories were required. People in warmer regions with lots of food - and predators - probably were more likely to survive if they slept lightly.
32 posted on 10/28/2015 11:47:23 AM PDT by Kipp
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To: doorgunner69

[[So, did they check negros in Africa that go through the day without seeing a caucasioan for correlation of their BS theory?]]

Or did they study black folks in ALL black communities who encounter NIO racism at all? Did they isolate those experiencing racism so that they were not subjected to any racism for aq year or so to find out if there was an improvement in sleep?

Loads of valid questions about this bogus study!


33 posted on 10/28/2015 11:48:58 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Impala64ssa

She knows what sleep deprived black people are thinking? She must have ESP. I am going all racist here and say I bet Mexicans have no issues getting plenty of sleep. I wonder what they are thinking? I wonder what Asians are thinking when they cannot sleep? I am a sleep deprived white person, does she know what I am thinking?

Sometimes my wife knows exactly what I am thinking when I am awake at 2:00am. Other times she just pretends she doesn’t know.


34 posted on 10/28/2015 11:50:07 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: DCBryan1
My wife and I always like getting our “around town chores” such as filling up gas, grocery store, Sams/Costco shopping done from 0900-1100 because the feral criminal crackhead-type elements here in Little Rock aren’t even awake and around until noon.

My wife says she likes to get her grocery shopping done before 9 because that's before all the little old ladies clog up the aisles.

35 posted on 10/28/2015 11:50:33 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney (,)
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To: Vanders9
University of Maryland, Baltimore psychologist Danielle L. Beatty Moody suggested that the sleep problems black people experience at night can be attributed to all the racism they encounter hard drugs they consume during the day.

I'll probably get pilloried for that...
If the shoe fits, wear it.

Regards,
GtG

36 posted on 10/28/2015 11:52:02 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, but it's OK. They all know me here.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Sleep apnea also affects black people at a higher rate. According to one study, 12.8 percent of black participants suffered from sleep apnea compared to 7.4 percent of white people.

Ummmm, sleep apnea is strongly correlated with being overweight... and blacks tend to be overweight more than whites. Possibly because they eat more... which I'm sure is somehow the fault of white people...

37 posted on 10/28/2015 11:52:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (Imagine if the GOPe fought Dems as hard as they fight Repubs. - freeper bray)
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To: Impala64ssa

It’s uncomfortable for them to sleep because they are thinking back over mistreatment, thinking back over mal­treat­ment, think­ing back over bias they experienced,....Maybe trying to remember if they left any evidence or got recorded?


38 posted on 10/28/2015 11:53:56 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Lazamataz

After while, when you understand that you “can’t win” with some people,

all you have left is intentionally provoking them...


39 posted on 10/28/2015 11:54:05 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Lazamataz
Working hard during the day helps people sleep.

Read into it what you will.

40 posted on 10/28/2015 11:57:08 AM PDT by kaboom
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